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		<h1>Managing your Applications</h1>

		<p>
			By default it is assumed that you only intend to use CodeIgniter to
			manage one application, which you will build in your
			<dfn>application/</dfn>
			directory. It is possible, however, to have multiple sets of
			applications that share a single CodeIgniter installation, or even to
			rename or relocate your
			<dfn>application</dfn>
			folder.
		</p>

		<h2>Renaming the Application Folder</h2>

		<p>
			If you would like to rename your
			<dfn>application</dfn>
			folder you may do so as long as you open your main
			<kbd>index.php</kbd>
			file and set its name using the
			<samp>$application_folder</samp>
			variable:
		</p>

		<code>$application_folder = "application";</code>

		<h2>Relocating your Application Folder</h2>

		<p>
			It is possible to move your
			<dfn>application</dfn>
			folder to a different location on your server than your
			<kbd>system</kbd>
			folder. To do so open your main
			<kbd>index.php</kbd>
			and set a <em>full server path</em> in the
			<samp>$application_folder</samp>
			variable.
		</p>


		<code>$application_folder = "/Path/to/your/application";</code>


		<h2>Running Multiple Applications with one CodeIgniter
			Installation</h2>

		<p>
			If you would like to share a common CodeIgniter installation to
			manage several different applications simply put all of the
			directories located inside your
			<kbd>application</kbd>
			folder into their own sub-folder.
		</p>

		<p>For example, let's say you want to create two applications,
			"foo" and "bar". You could structure your application folders like
			this:</p>

		<code>
			applications/
			<var>foo</var>
			/<br /> applications/
			<var>foo</var>
			/config/<br /> applications/
			<var>foo</var>
			/controllers/<br /> applications/
			<var>foo</var>
			/errors/<br /> applications/
			<var>foo</var>
			/libraries/<br /> applications/
			<var>foo</var>
			/models/<br /> applications/
			<var>foo</var>
			/views/<br /> applications/
			<samp>bar</samp>
			/<br /> applications/
			<samp>bar</samp>
			/config/<br /> applications/
			<samp>bar</samp>
			/controllers/<br /> applications/
			<samp>bar</samp>
			/errors/<br /> applications/
			<samp>bar</samp>
			/libraries/<br /> applications/
			<samp>bar</samp>
			/models/<br /> applications/
			<samp>bar</samp>
			/views/
		</code>


		<p>
			To select a particular application for use requires that you open
			your main
			<kbd>index.php</kbd>
			file and set the
			<dfn>$application_folder</dfn>
			variable. For example, to select the "foo" application for use you
			would do this:
		</p>

		<code>$application_folder = "applications/foo";</code>

		<p class="important">
			<strong>Note:</strong>&nbsp; Each of your applications will need its
			own
			<dfn>index.php</dfn>
			file which calls the desired application. The index.php file can be
			named anything you want.
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